My publisher put out a call for short videos highlighting our family holiday traditions. One that stands out to me from my childhood, and that I’ve carried on as a mom is to make pizzelle cookies around Christmas time. You need a pizzelle iron to make them and I’m still borrowing my mom’s when she’s in town. The family press gets passed around from aunt to aunt. Whoever ends up last one year, goes first the next year. Here’s a peak at the process:
SHONNA SLAYTON is the author of the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series of young adult novels, beginning with Cinderella’s Dress. She edited curriculum for an education company before homeschooling her own children using literature-based whole book learning. She’s taught writing using fairy tales in school classrooms and workshops, as well as in public libraries as a writer in residence. Instead of seeing her in person, you can get the Lessons from Grimm Series which includes a writer’s guide and workbooks for writers to learn fiction techniques through fairy tales.
What I'm working on now:
Reign of the Kelpies (River Kelpies Book 2)
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River Kelpies Book 3
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